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The Environs of London
… it is only said in general, that the rooms are fair and large, and some of them wainscotted and matted. The …
Old and New London
… out of all array save her kirtle only, yet went she so fair and lovely, namely while the wondering of the people … intent than any virtuous intention. "Proper she was, and fair; nothing in her body that you would have changed, but if … guess and devine which parts, how filled, would make it a fair face. "Yet delighted men not so much in her beauty as in …
Old and New London
… privileges conferred on the Goldsmiths' Company by the statute 28 Edward I. They had for the former purpose an assay … on, a busy scene during the hours of assaying. In the old statute all manner of vessels of gold and silver are expected … procession of the London crafts to meet Richard II.'s fair young queen, Anne of Bohemia, all the mysteries of the …
Old and New London
… says Stow, "in this lane I find none other than among many fair houses. There is one large inn for receipt of … was said to have been a Crusader, and to have married a fair Saracen, who had released him from prison, and who …
Old and New London
… of the Queen and her ladies. But scarcely had this fair company entered the tower, when the scaffolding suddenly … upper end of Cheapside. On the wooden battlements stood fair maidens, who blew gold leaf on the King, Queen, and … the child was borne into the churchyard, there set upon a fair courser, and so conveyed through Cheapside to his own …
Old and New London
… is now wholly inhabited by rich merchants, and divers fair inns be there, for good receipt of carriers and other … called The Salter's Chapel," says Strype, "is a very fair window, with the portraiture or figure of him that gave … the west side of Bread Street," says Stow, "amongst divers fair and large houses for merchants, and fair inns for …
Old and New London
… There seems to have been nothing to specially disturb the fair building and its ministering priests till 1090 (William … Mary Bow," says Stow, "towards West Chepe, standeth one fair building of stone, called in record Seldam, a shed which …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… nuts in chocolate for private use was determined by this statute, at ½ CWT [Acts (1723)]. Therefore, after 1723 …